PONG. No, Really ...

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I know you kids will find this hard to believe, but PONG® was once the only game in town. You know, back in the Jurassic Age Click here to learn about third-party website links when mom was growing up. This first wildly popular video game of the early 1970s consisted of knocking a computer-controlled "blip" Click here to learn about third-party website links back and forth across a cathode ray Click here to learn about third-party website links screen (another dinosaur).

Pong game systemPONG was made by Atari Click here to learn about third-party website links, a company founded in 1972 by 29-year-old computer whiz Nolan Bushnell Click here to learn about third-party website links. Wells Fargo's Special Industries Group in Palo Alto helped the fledgling firm get ponging by providing a $50,000 line of credit so that Atari could begin manufacturing its product. Atari parlayed this credit into sales of over $3 million in its first year. And the "PONG" rest is "PONG" history Click here to learn about third-party website links ...

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